By extending the neo-classical economic framework to a behavioral and financial literacy level this thesis intends to give a better understanding for how individuals make decisions concerning loans and savings. I find there is a broad support for the notion that these extensions can explain why some individuals are overindebted and accumulate insufficient savings for their retirement. As a direct

The development of Germany’s energy intensity of the 19th and 20th century shows a clear inverted U-shaped trend, which supports the hypothesis of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) of energy intensity. In this article this development will be analyzed from a consumption perspective and investigate the impact of international trade on the upswing phase of Germany’s EKC of energy intensity. It i

Introduction: Post-colonial feminists have highlighted the tendency in the West to constitute the “other” woman as oppressed and in radical opposition to the “Western” liberated woman. Egyptian women as part of the larger category of the “Arab woman” are often the objects of such discourses. On the one hand, the emergence of women during the Egyptian revolution, in both Local and Western media, as

En ekokritisk analys av Eva-Stina Byggmästars triologi om kärlek.

Det huvudsakliga syftet med föreliggande studie var att jämföra röstkvalitet hos patienter som behandlats med antingen radioterapi eller laserterapi vid tidig glottisk cancer. Detta är en frågeställning som tidigare har utretts i en studie vid Skånes Universitetssjukhus, med ett resultat som talade till radioterapins fördel. Nära två decennier har passerat sedan studien genomfördes och under denna

Below every building there is a different type of foundation work, it can comprise point carried piles or floating piles that pursues down the loads in the ground. A foundation work without piles could also be used, but big subsidence can arise in particular at bigger building constructions, it is however most important that the differentiate subsidence becomes too big. These subsidences can influ

Glulam arches can be used when designing structures with large spans such as halls or arenas. Wood has low density compared to steel and concrete which keeps down the dead weight of the structure. The cross section of glulam arches is often built up as a box-section for efficiency reasons. However, wood shows strongly orthotropic behavior where maximum allowed stress perpendicular to grain is only

In the north-east part of Lund, Sweden, the MAX IV facility is (in the event of writing this thesis) under construction. MAX IV is a synchrotron radiation facility which has a high requirement regarding low vibrations. Within this thesis a nearby road-bridge for the highway E22 was studied using experimental and numerical methods. The aim was to determine the magnitude of the road-bridge influence

Syftet med denna uppsats är att ur en nationalekonomisk synvinkel se ifall man med prisjusteringar kan få en genomsnittlig svensk att välja det hälsosammare alternativet i nyckelhålsmärkt och därmed belasta sjukvårdskostnaderna mindre. Ett andra mål är att med prisjusteringar få genomsnittssvensken att köpa mindre av de produkter som är allmänt känt onyttiga. Datamaterialet som har använts är ett

THIS MASTER THESIS is about making diving more accessible. The experience of diving is today relying on a complex set of equipment and infrastructure, thus most people with a certificate seldom use it. My intention is to evolve diving equipment, which has looked the same since the sixties, and by doing that simplifying the experience of diving. The goal is to create a solution positioning itself

The aim of this study was to investigate how the new Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis method (NIPD) is represented within a public policy constituted by The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics, “SMER”. In order to do this, a post-structural method for policy-analysis called “What’s the problem represented to be”, founded by Carol Lee Bacchi (2009) have been used for the analysis. Through a d

Sammanfattning Vi har gjort en kvalitativ studie och intervjuat individer med en tidigare missbruksproblematik och kriminellbakgrund. Alla utom en av intervjupersonerna har deltagit i ett 12-stegsprogram. Det finns hjälp att få som missbrukare genom behandling, men det är ändå inte alla som klarar av att sluta fast den hjälpen finns. Det är viktigt och intressant att undersöka varför det är så. VWe have made a qualitative study that started from interviewees with substance abuse problems. All of the interviewees have a background as criminals and addicts and three of them have participated in twelve-step program. There is treatment that is intended to support and help addicts, but it's still not all that manage to get out of their addiction. That makes it important and interesting to

The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to the development of an integrated Swedish national risk and ability assessment. The goal was to develop a method that uses performance indicators for evaluation of crisis management capability, and to analyze whether this is a good tool for that purpose.A method was created using a method development process, and with the aid of literature and intervi

In today´s society it seems to be increasingly hard to make long-term relationships last. Divorce statistics in Sweden show that almost half of the marriages today end in divorce (SCB, 2012). Why then is it so difficult to make love work? Are we just harder to please, or can the trend be understood on the basis of the modern society we live in, where self-fulfilment and individuality clash with th

Metallic hip prosthesis is an implant that gets more common and comes with problems like metallosis (inflammation due to metallic debris). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which is a superior method when imaging soft tissue (compared to other medical imaging techniques) is affected by metal implants and will result in a distorted image. View Angle Tilting (VAT) and Slice Encoding for Metal Artifac